After the very sunny day on Wednesday with 7.4 hours of strong sunshine, which followed the overcast day on Tuesday, yesterday was back to the thick cloud and no sunshine. As a consequence the temperature was down again to a maximum of 15.2C, still above average (+0.6).
There was a very light shower of drizzle mid afternoon amounting to 0.2mm bringing the total for October to 31.0mm
Late afternoon the start of a clearance, from the persistent meandering weather front, could be detected from the west as the wind veered into the north west. The sky slowly cleared allowing the thermometer to drop to a minimum of 6.9C by dawn, which promised a much more sunny day to follow.
The barometric pressure with a reading of 1032.2mb at 08.00 as a result of a ridge of high pressure, is the highest pressure since 20th April.